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Sanctuary · Sick of It All

EXERCISE 8 OF 29
5-bar fill at bar 1
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0 / 29 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGOQNS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sanctuary on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, snare through bars 22-31, hi-hat through bars 32-47, snare through bars 48-49 and toms through bars 50-51, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14-16, and 8 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Sanctuary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-10 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-64 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sanctuary?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sanctuary hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sanctuary?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED